Statistical Genetics Seminar

Spring Quarter 2010
Tuesday 4:00-5:00,F643 HSB

CURRENT SCHEDULE

Topic: rare variants

  • Mar 30: Organizational meeting: See HERE, for possible references relevant to rare variants.

  • Apr 6: Remi Kazma Guest speaker from University of Paris: Gene-environment interactions in genetic studies of complex diseases

  • Apr 13: Cohen et al (2004) Multiple rare alleles contribute to low plasma levels of HDL cholesterol. Science 305:869-872.
    Speaker 1: Matt Conomos
    Speaker 2: Natalie Thompson
    Speaker 3: Sangsoon Woo
    Faculty: Ellen Wijsman

  • Apr. 20: Ng et al (2010) Exome sequencing identifies the cause of a mendelian disorder. Nature Genetics 42:30-35.
    Speaker 1: Zeinab Yazdi
    Speaker 2: Timothy O'Brien
    Speaker 3: Liz Marchani
    Faculty: Ellen Wijsman

  • Apr 27: Li BS and Leal SM (2008) Methods for detecting associations with rare variants for common diseases: Application to analysis of sequence data. American Journal of Human Genetics 83:311-321.
    Speaker 1: (Kate) Jie Hu
    Speaker 2: Yoonha Choi
    Speaker 3: Sohee Oh
    faculty: Ellen Wijsman

  • May 4: Dickson SP et al (2010) Rare variants create synthetic genome-wide associations. PLOS Biology 8(1):e1000294.
    Speaker 1: Rui Zhang
    Speaker 2: Charles Cheung
    Faculty: Timothy Thornton

  • May 11: Beate Peter: "Association study of CNTNAP2 and FOXP2 in dyslexia"

  • May 18: Madsen BE and Browning SR (2009) A groupwise association test for rare mutations using a weighted sum statistic. PLOS Genetics 5(2):e1000384.
    Speaker 1: Marshall Brown
    Speaker 2: Kevin Rubenstein
    Faculty: Elizabeth Thompson

  • May 25: Ionita-Laza I et al (2009) Estimating the number of unseen variants in the human genome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 106(13):5008-5013. (The paper could still change if we find a popgen paper we like better....)
    Speaker 1: Peter Chi
    Speaker 2: Ming Su

  • June 1: Auton et al (2009) Global distribution of genomic diversity underscores rich complex history of continental human populations. Genome Research 19(5):795-803. (The paper could still change if we find a similar paper we like better....)
    Speaker 1: Xiuwen Zheng
    Speaker 2: Patrick Danaher